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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? Often times, it seems like people are thinking its synonymous with "that guy who gets paid to sit in the corner and think technical deep thoughts" or "that guy who gets to swoop in a rearrange my project at the last minute on a whim."

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. Beware the new hire who has "extensive experience" in startups or big companies - using a different growth driver. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Seth Godin: How often should you publish? Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Seth Godin: How often should you publish? Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form.

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Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

Startup Lessons Learned

Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Seth Godin: How often should you publish? Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form.

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Seth Godin: How often should you publish? Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form.

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